Singing has always been a passion for Elizabeth Winter.

At the Senior Star competition organized by Chartwell Seniors Housing, she sang B次元官网网址淵ou Light Up My LifeB次元官网网址� and took home the first-place trophy June 28 at the Ross Place Retirement Residence in Victoria.

Winter, 80, dressed in a purple evening gown with silver rhinestone earrings and a matching necklace.

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B次元官网网址s of the top two performances in Victoria will be sent to Chartwell Senior Star organizers in Ontario. One person will be selected to compete in the national finals in Niagara Falls, Ont. Winter will find out in September if she has earned one of the 10 coveted spots.

Eight seniors competed in the Victoria event and Winter was deemed the winner by a panel of three judges.

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Her first radio-broadcast performance came as a youngster on CJVI in 1945, when she sang B次元官网网址淚 Am Always Chasing Rainbows.B次元官网网址� Later, she joined the Gilbert and Sullivan Society, now known as the Victoria Operatic Society.

From 1969 to 1974 she was a singer at Butchart Gardens at the Just for Fun show.

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Today she sings and plays piano with a group called The Nutones, who generally play at retirement residences.

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charla@goldstreamgazette.com